Charles Anderson Farrell Photographic Collection, 1938-1940, 1943-1944

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Charles Anderson Farrell Photographic Collection, 1938-1940, 1943-1944

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In 1923, Charles Anderson Farrell, a native of Yadkin County, N.C., became the first professional photographer for the in Greensboro, N.C. In addition to his work for the newspaper, Farrell operated a photography studio, camera store, and art supply shop in downtown Greensboro. Farrell contributed photographs to several University of North Carolina Press books. Greensboro Daily News The collection includes 688 photographic images (photographic negatives and prints) related to three books published by University of North Carolina Press that Farrell worked on as a photographer: Stella Gentry Sharpe's (1939), about a young African American boy and his family; Bernice Kelly Harris's (1940), and Aubrey Lee Brook's (1944), about Clark, who served as chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, 1903-1924. Tobe Dramatis Personae: Photographic Studies: Eastern Carolina Folk Plays Walter Clark: Fighting Judge

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. North Carolina Collection.

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Farrell, Charles Anderson, 1894-1977.

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Charles Anderson Farrell was a native of Yadkin County, North Carolina, and in 1923 moved to Greensboro where he became the first professional photographer of the Greensboro Daily News. In the 1920s and 1930s, Farrell also operated a photography studio, camera store, and art supply house in downtown Greensboro. Farrell died at the age of 83 in the Friends Home at Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1977. From the description of Charles Anderson Farrell papers, 1938-1977. WorldCat record i...